The Times reports on their website that bulldozers in Trenton have began clearing the way for the long-missing link required to finally complete the Delaware and Raritan Canal path.

The $400,000 project, slated for completion next spring, will fill in a 1.5 mile gap in the hiking and biking trail that traverses the Delaware & Raritan Canal State Park.

The path, along historic mule towpaths and railroad beds, skirts the Delaware & Raritan Canal and its feeder canal for most of its length from Frenchtown to Trenton and back up to New Brunswick.

The new trail piece will link to the old path near Old Rose Street, utilizing an abandoned railroad bridge to cross over Route 1 before proceeding north along the northbound lanes of Route 1 to Mulberry Street.